Deadline: January 5, 2024
The Slavonic sub-faculty at the University of Oxford welcomes enquiries and applications for its DPhil (PhD) program; the Modern Languages MSt. and MPhil (with specialization in Russian, or Russian+another language); and the MSt. and MPhil in Slavonic Studies. Applications wishing to be considered for funding should be submitted by 5 January 2024; the final deadline for applications is 1 March 2024. Further information on applications and funding is available at:
https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/graduate/how-to-apply
We are one of the largest Slavonic departments in the world, with nine faculty members engaged in research across medieval, early modern, and modern Russian and Russophone literature; Slavonic linguistics; and Czech, Slovak, Polish and Ukrainian literature and culture. We have particular strengths in literary and cultural history of the 18th to 21st centuries; comparative literature; biography; gender studies; and digital humanities. Recent research and public engagement involving members of the sub-faculty include the AHRC project Creative Multilingualism; the Digitized Correspondence of Catherine the Great (CatCor); and numerous networks in TORCH, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.
Many of our graduate students are co-supervised with colleagues in History, Music, English, Classics and other faculties. Our graduate community is large and vibrant, with a full program of events, including the weekly Slavonic research seminar, typically attended by 30-50 researchers, and numerous student-run seminars and groups. Many graduate students have gone on to become faculty members of Slavonic departments around the world.
The Modern Languages Faculty has access to the widest range of graduate funding opportunities of any Modern Languages department in the country. In addition to University and Divisional run schemes which offer AHRC funding through the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership and the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Postgraduate Scholarships, the Faculty has a number of Faculty specific awards through college co-funding (at New College, Lincoln College and Christ Church). The Hill foundation offers additional funding for Russian students of extremely high academic ability.